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Portable home battery plugged into a wall outlet inside an apartment.

Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming

By Kevin Montien

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July 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Large solar farm installed near residential homes in rural Italy highlighting land use conflict.

A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected

By Adrian Villellas

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July 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM

Aerial view of the Darlington SMR nuclear construction site in Ontario, Canada.

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

By Kevin Montien

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July 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Offshore wind turbine platform being transported for installation at sea.

While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM

Person holding used coffee grounds in a paper filter after brewing.

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

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July 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Close up of salt crystals used as base material for sodium ion batteries

The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030

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July 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Worker installing removable solar panels between active railway tracks

Switzerland has just installed a small solar power plant between the tracks of an active railway line, and what seems impossible is that more than 11,000 trains have already passed over it without interrupting service

By Adrian Villellas

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July 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Floating solar panels under ice with air bubbles preventing freezing damage

An experiment conducted in Canada has just demonstrated something that sounds incredibly strange: solar panels floating on a frozen pond continued to generate electricity thanks to a waterproof foam and underwater bubbles

By Kevin Montien

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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Moment Energy megafactory in Vancouver repurposing used EV batteries into energy storage systems

An electric car’s used battery does not stop working when the car is no longer in use, and a megafactory in Vancouver wants to give it a second life to power hospitals, data centers, and microgrids

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM

Massive offshore converter station being installed in the Yellow Sea for wind power transmission

China’s massive “electric island” has no blades and doesn’t look like a windmill, but it transmits 1.1 gigawatts of offshore wind power from the Yellow Sea to the power grid

By Kevin Montien

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July 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM

Power-to-gas plant in Spain producing renewable methane from hydrogen and captured CO2

A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen and captured CO2 into renewable gas that flows through actual pipelines

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July 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM

Small modular wind turbine providing electricity in a rural off-grid village

The French wind turbine, which aims to do away with giant towers, promises to bring electricity to farms, islands, and remote areas thanks to a modular 1-kilowatt design that requires no cranes or concrete

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Residential home with solar panels installed along the garden fence generating electricity

The latest trend in solar energy in Europe is no longer focused on rooftops, but on garden fences, and promises to turn a simple property line into a mini power plant

By Kevin Montien

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July 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Hannah Herbst presenting her ocean energy generator prototype built with simple materials

A 15-year-old student has built a generator for just $12 using a propeller, a PVC pipe, and recycled parts, and her idea is once again drawing attention because it could provide lighting to coastal communities by harnessing the energy of water

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July 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Massive underground redox flow battery construction site in Laufenburg, Switzerland, built for grid-scale energy storage

Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to release 1.2 GW in milliseconds and store 2.1 GWh at a multibillion-dollar price tag

By Adrian Villellas

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July 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM

A view of the Bull Mountains near Roundup, Montana, where coal mining activity remains the central economic driver for Musselshell County.

A Montana county commissioner wanted to prepare his county in case coal revenues dried up, and voters ousted him from office in a Republican primary that served as a warning to other mining communities

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July 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM

High-voltage electrical substation with transmission equipment, linked to concerns over AI data centers and U.S. grid demand.

The U.S. power grid has just been given a 60-day ultimatum, as artificial intelligence data centers consume so much energy that they are already raising concerns about the impact on household electricity bills

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July 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Large rooftop and ground-mounted solar panels at a residential property in Puerto Rico, with workers on site.

Puerto Rico had a $1 billion federal fund to install solar panels and batteries in vulnerable households, but now much of that money is being diverted to the old power grid

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June 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Aerial view of a data center with cooling systems releasing vapor, showing water use for server cooling

Amazon’s sparkling cloud hides a dirty secret: its AI gulps more water than rivals and still calls itself “efficient

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June 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of a modern cruise ship used to illustrate the scale difference between existing passenger vessels and the proposed Freedom Ship.

A “floating city” proposal is back with a ship about one mile long designed to hold 80,000 people, and the uncomfortable detail is that it is being pitched as nuclear-powered while funding still decides whether it is real or just renderings

By Kevin Montien

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June 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM

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